Author's Unimportant Note:

Just a few things I want to say before you read on. Thanks for the reviews and stuff. And a real special thanks goes out to Mike for correcting my German. I can't speak it worth a lick and actually got that from a translator online. In the near future feel free to correct me anytime you wish. That goes out to everyone. I'd rather be corrected and know how to say 'your mother' in German than run around thinking it was right the way it was.

On a even stupider note I'm not to happy with this chapter. It came out all right but I know I could have done better. Last but not least. I like cake. Yep, I can't say I like pie cause my buddy would kill me for stealing his line.

Day Two: Museums weren't made for Eva pilots


Cage Nine

Fuyutsuki paced in front of all five Children, who stood at attention and in order.

"Okay, guys, today is my day to spend time with you. So I was wondering if you had any suggestion on where we could go?"

"How about we go sky diving!?" Asuka suggested, raising her hand while speaking.

"Ugh...something that won't result in an early death for some of us older folks."

Touji raised his hand and spoke. "How about we go to a monster truck rally?"

Asuka leaned so she could see Touji passed Shinji, "Hey, stooge, some of us don't enjoy senseless wreckage, so keep that in mind."

"Well, some of us don't enjoy falling to our deaths either, so why don't you keep that in mind as well."

"Okay, that's enough of you two. Calm down."

Both quieted down and return their attention to Fuyutsuki.

"Any more suggestions?"

"How about...." Shinji started, raising his hand.

"No!" Asuka cut in.

"But I didn't even get to say what it was."

Asuka grinned. "You're an idiot so its going to be a stupid idea."

Fuyutsuki frowned. "Second...." he growled.

She looked down and sighed. "Oh, all right, I guess we could hear what he's got to say."

Turning to Shinji Fuyutsuki gave him the go ahead to continue.

"Maybe we could go hang out at the beach or something."

"We can do that any day!" Touji and Asuka exclaimed.

"It was just a suggestion!"

Fuyutsuki shook his head as the Second, Third and Fourth continued to bicker. His eyes landed on the First who was just staring off into space.

"First Child, do you have any suggestions?"

"Nothing." came the quiet reply.

"Oh, well, try to think of something." Fuyutsuki encouraged.

"No." Rei shook her head. "I suggest we do nothing."

Everyone shut up and stared at Rei.

"What the hell are you smoking, Wondergirl?"

Rei looked at Asuka. Asuka looked at Rei. Rei continued to stare at Asuka. Asuka flicked Rei in the head. Rei flinched and rubbed her forehead. Asuka enjoyed this so much that she flicked the girl in the arm. Rei frowned. Fuyutsuki frowned. Asuka flicked Rei in the arm again.

"Stop that, Second."

Remembering that she was at attention, Asuka smiled sheepishly and stopped flicking Rei in the arm. "Sorry, sir."

Turning to the Fifth and final Child, Fuyutsuki asked him the same question he asked Rei.

"Well, I was thinking the museum sounded like a good idea." Kaworu said.

While Fuyutsuki was thinking that over Asuka decided to flick Rei in the arm again.

"Please stop that."

"But its kinda fun. You should give it a try. But not on me of course."

Rei turned towards Asuka, who didn't noticed because she was so into flicking the girl in the arm. Finally getting that feeling that someone was staring at you, Asuka looked up at Rei. Rei continued to stare. The arm that Asuka was not flicking suddenly came up. Asuka's eyebrow rose in confusion. "What are you...

Rei flicked Asuka in the forehead.

Asuka stared at the First Child, stunned to silence.

Rei returned her attention to Fuyutsuki. Shinji who had been staring at them instead of Fuyutsuki chuckled and looked elsewhere when he caught Asuka glaring at him.

"So its settle!" Fuyutsuki exclaimed, holding his fist in the air.

Since Asuka hadn't been paying attention she asked:

"What's settled? Are we going sky diving!?"

"No," Shinji answered, looking rather dull about it. "We're going to the museum."

Asuka seemingly died like Shinji had and looked down. "Oh, yippee."

"Yes," came Shinji's dead reply, "I can't contain my excitement either."

Touji looked over at them with the same look and feeling. "I think I've pee in my pants from all my excitement."

Rei looked at the Touji with the same look, but that's because Rei always looked like that. "Fourth, please do not inform us of such things in the near future. It is rather disturbing to the mind."

Touji looked at Rei. "Ayanami, you don't catch sarcasm very well do you?"

Rei just looked the other way, while Asuka and Shinji snickered.

Kaworu, in the same boat as Rei, only stared on in confusion. "At least your not standing next to this guy, Rei. That is if he did urinate on himself."

Fuyutsuki was glaring at them. They hadn't been listening to a word he said.

He cleared his throat and got their attention once again. "Yes, shall we. I've got a couple of interesting museums in mind." With that Fuyutsuki turned and walked away.

Touji looked at the others. "I bet you guys four hundred yen we go to a museum and end up in the Second Impact section."

"I wouldn't be surprise if that happened." muttered an unhappy Shinji.

Touji nodded and groaned. "Nothing sounds better than a museum. Thanks a whole bunch Kaworu."

"You're very welcome, Fourth."

Touji eye started twitch, "What the hell is wrong with red-eyed people!?"

Kaworu and Rei both glared at Touji. He saw Kaworu's glare, but did not catch Rei's.

"What!? You both have problems and you know it!" Touji stated, trying to defend himself.

Rei walked in front of Touji. Touji looked down at her. She looked up. Touji blinked. Rei flicked him in the forehead.

"Ayanami!" Touji exclaimed, rubbing his forehead. "What the hell was that for?"

Rei turned and started walking while answering his question. "I'm angry."

Shinji raised his eyebrow at the departing Rei. "One would not have figured that out if she hadn't told us."

Asuka was agreeing while shaking her head. "It is truly truly a sad thing when you can't tell a person's angry."

Touji was rubbing his forehead. "She flicked me pretty hard!"

"What a wimp." Asuka muttered and followed after Rei.

Touji stuck his tongue at her while rolling his eyes upward. She didn't see, but Shinji did and he just shook his head while grinning.

"I don't know. Today might be interesting after all."

Kaworu looked at him. "Yes, I believe I want to look at the 'old days' when we get to the museum."

Shinji looked at Kaworu. "Kaworu, I wasn't talking about that."

"Oh."

********

"What the hell is that!?" Asuka exclaimed.

"It's a car. A van to be exact." Fuyutsuki answered.

"But...but...."

The sub-commander sighed. "What's wrong with it, Second?"

"Its so ugly. I don't want to ride around in that."

"What's so ugly about it?"

Asuka rolled her eyes and pointed at the large 'NERV' logo on the van. "Who would want to drive around with that thing on their car?"

"Actually," Rei started, but Asuka somehow developed super speed and make it over towards the girl in time to cover her mouth.

"Don't even say it. Just don't say it. Got it?"

"Then I'll say it!" Shinji announce. "NERV owns a car company! Hundreds of thousands of people drive NERV made cars everyday including Misato."

"So in a sense, plenty of people drive around with this on their car." Fuyutsuki finished.

There was a moment of silence as Asuka stared at them in shock. She didn't lose that gaze even when someone's hands started pulling at her arm.

"OH, geeze Asuka!" Touji and Shinji exclaimed.

"What!?"

"You're killing Rei!" all four males screamed.

Asuka blinked and turned around. Sure enough she had cut off the girls air supply by firmly pressing down on both her nose and mouth. Rei was the one trying to pull Asuka's arm off, she finally figured out, but now the blue haired pilot looked like she was about to faint.

'I wonder if I should release her.'

After a minute of thinking it over, Asuka let go of Rei who then collapsed to the ground.

"So, what do you suggest we do, Second Child?" Fuyutsuki wondered, completely ignoring the gagging Rei on the floor and getting back to the subject at hand.

"I think we should take your car."

"My car would not fit all of you." Fuyutsuki explained.

Asuka thought about and snapped her fingers when she figured it out. "Touji can ride in the trunk."

"HEY!"

"Second Child?" Fuyutsuki called.

"Yes, sub-commander."

"If the van upsets you so much then I'll have them bring me one of Section 2's SUVs, how's that sound?"

"Sounds like a plan to me."

******

After the SUV came, the set out towards whatever museum Fuyutsuki decided to take them to. Asuka took shogun with Touji and Shinji behind her and Rei and Kaworu in the far back.

Although unknown to them Rei was plotting her revenge against Asuka 'Note to self: Kill the Second Child in her sleep. Otherwise she may prove to be a formidable opponent.'

"Hey, Sub-Commander?" Touji called, raising his hand out of habit.

"Yes, Fourth Child?"

"I kinda promised a couple of my school buddies that they'd get to go with us on all our trips this week, so could we go pick them up from the park?"

Fuyutsuki looked at Touji through the rearview mirror.

"Fourth, I don't not wish to have kids not under my control with me."

"But they're really nice and will behave themselves." Shinji added.

There was a moment of silence as Fuyutsuki thought about it. "Is this park on the way to where were going?"

Shinji and Touji exchanged glances and nodded. Fuyutsuki saw this in the mirror.

"Okay, fine, but they are responsible for themselves."

"Oh, great now we have to deal with the third stooge and his infatuation with Wondergirl." Asuka whispered.

Kaworu chuckled and looked at Rei. "Isn't that cute, Ayanami, Kensuke's probably in love with you."

'I want to go back to my apartment.' Rei thought in with a sigh. Outwardly she said nothing though, only kept her attention focused out the window.

Kaworu looked away when he figured out that she was not going to response. "On the inside your blushing." he commented.

"Oh, and let's not forget Touji undying love for Hikari." Shinji threw in. Touji snapped his attention towards the Third Child.

"You'd be better off in the backseat, Shinji." he growled through clenched teeth.

Blinking Shinji asked. "Huh? Why?"

"Because then I'll have to manage to somehow kill you without injuring the other two back there in the process."

"What'll happen if I stay right here?"

"THIS!" Touji's hand quickly latched onto Shinji's throat and started squeezing.

"ACK!" cried Shinji.

Asuka turned around and whacked Touji on the head. "You can't kill him. He makes my breakfast and does my housework. That's my slave and unless your gonna replace him I suggest you stop!"

Touji had to let go of Shinji to rub his sore head. "Ow, Asuka, why'd you have to hit me so hard. I wasn't gonna kill your bitch. Just bruise him a little bit." After glaring at Asuka for a few seconds, Touji turned his attention back to Shinji, "Why are you still here? Want some more!?"

"EEP!" Shinji dove into the back seat, knocking his and Kaworu's heads together and smacking Rei into the window. After he was finally seated in between Rei and Kaworu, he rubbed his head. Kaworu and Rei were already doing that.

"He was not really going to kill you." Rei whispered, frowning as she spoke.

Shinji looked at her. "How do you know that?"

"He would get in trouble."

"Well excuse me if I happen to value my life a little bit more than I use to."

Kaworu was still rubbing his head all the while grumbling. "Yeah, well, you could have tried to be a little gentle coming back here."

Shinji glared at him and looked forward. "You're just mad because you can't rub Ayanami's leg now."

Kaworu looked off to the side. "I am not!"

"Oh, great, him too!" Asuka cried. She looked at Fuyutsuki. "Sub-Commander make the Fifth not be so dirty-minded!"

"Yes, Second Child." Fuyutsuki replied. "Fifth, don't be so dirty-minded."

"But it was Ikari." Kaworu told.

"And tell the Third to not be so stupid!"

"Third," Fuyutsuki started, "don't be so stupid."

The others, excluding Rei, stared in shock. Asuka had Fuyutsuki in the palm of her hand now. They were doomed.

"And let's go sky diving instead of to the museum."

"Yes, Second Child."

"Oh, yeah," Asuka started. "Tell the Fourth to not be a perverted idiot."

"Fourth, don't be such a perverted idiot."

"This is getting a little weird." Touji whispered to the others.

Grinning Asuka continued. "And tell the First to get a life."

"First Child,"

Rei looked towards Fuyutsuki. She waited.

"Get a life."

"Yes, sir." Rei turned her attention back out the window. 'How am I suppose to do that?' she thought.

********

The NERV issued SUV pulled next to two children, a girl and a boy, and the back door flew open.

"HI!" Touji exclaimed.

Kensuke and Hikari stared at him.

"Where are the others?"

Touji gestured to the front. "Devil-girl is right here."

"Sub-commander cut the Fourth's paycheck!" Asuka demanded.

"Yes, Second Child."

Continuing as if he just didn't get his paycheck cut, Touji gestured to the back seat. "The others are back here having a threesome. I believe Shinji's in the middle."

Kensuke grinned a dirty little boy grin and Hikari gasped and jumped in the car to beat the crap out of Touji.

"Suzahara! How dare you say such things?"

Kensuke climbed in after her and looked towards the backseat. "HEY! Shinji is in the middle!"

Gasping again, Hikari stopped slapping Touji and looked towards the backseat. What she saw wasn't what she expected to see, but Kensuke was right Shinji was in the middle.

But instead of having a threesome like Touji had informed them off, he was reading a book over Kaworu's shoulder. Rei was just staring out the window.

"Hi, Rei!" Kensuke waved, smiling brightly.

Rei looked at him, the turned her attention back out the window. Kensuke grinned and melted in his seat. Everyone, but Rei, stared at him in confusion.

"I love it when she just looks at me as if she doesn't care."

Shinji scratched the back of his head. "She looks at everyone like that." he explained to Kensuke.

"But she does it with such passion when she does it to me. Oh, yeah, deep down, she wants me."

Shinji just shook his head, looked at Rei, who was ignoring everything around her and went back to reading over Kaworu's shoulder.

"Ya know, if you think about it..." Kaworu suddenly spoke up.

"Yea, think about what?" Hikari asked, staring at Kaworu in confusion.

Kaworu grinned. "She actually looks at Shinji with more passion than you, Kensuke."

Shinji developed a look like a fish out of water. Kensuke was glaring at Kaworu and secretly glaring at Shinji. Rei was now staring at Kaworu with one thought in mind.

'Note to self: Kill Nagisa.'

*********

The 1st backseat....

"Please Asuka, don't let get my paycheck cut! Please!" Touji begged, leaning forward so Asuka could see him.

Asuka snorted, "you have thought about that before you said what you said."

Touji grumbled and tried again anyway, "Say what if I..." he began.

Hikari, for her part was glancing at the others in the back and caught the rather evil look Rei had towards Kaworu and turned to Touji.

"Say Touji, do you think that Rei plots against others?" Hikari asked in a hushed tone.

Touji stopped him from pleading with Asuka to give Hikari his attention.

"Umm, what?"

"Do you think that Rei secretly plots against people?" she repeated, whispering so no one could hear her.

Touji looked at Rei and then back at Hikari. "Probably. She looks like the kind of person that gets her revenge when you least expect it."

Hikari blinked and then let her eyes wandered to the window. "Do you think she wants to kill me?" she questioned, eyes showing fear.

Touji blinked in confusion, raised an eyebrow, and answered. "I don't know. Why don't you ask her? Ayanami's pretty straightforward with answers."

"Hmmm..." Hikari thought, not replying to Touji.

*********

"Ayanami?" Shinji called.

"Yes, Ikari?" Rei answered, not looking at him.

'Damn, I thought she would turned. Now I actually need to keep going.'

"Say, do you want to have a staring contest?" he thought up quickly.

Kaworu looked away from his book to Shinji. Then he let himself grin.

"You just want to see if she actually looks at you differently." he whispered.

Shinji slowly brought his hand up to and punched Kaworu in the arm.

"Ow! Why did you hit me!?"

"You talk too much." Shinji muttered. He returned his attention to Rei who was now looking at him. 'Hmm...her stare doesn't seem any different.'

"Ikari, why do you want to have a staring contest?"

"NO, Sub-commander, the Sky diving place is over there!" Asuka screamed from the front seat.

"Yes, Second Child." came the droned reply.

"Hey, Shinji, don't get fresh with my wife to be!" Kensuke threaten, holding his fist to see. "I'll kill you!"

Shinji stared at Kensuke and then shook his head. "Shut-up, you're just mad because she looks at me with more passion."

"That's not true!" Kensuke cried.

"Yes it is!"

"No it isn't!"

Shinji nodded, crossed his arms in a cocky kinda way and grinned. "Oh, yes she does."

Kensuke glared at the suddenly cocky Third Child. "I hate you."

"You can't hate me 'cause I get the special glances."

Rei just stared at the both of them. 'What is it they say in situations like this?' she thought. 'Oh yes, I remember. They are nothing but a couple of incompetent fools.'

Before Shinji and Kensuke could argue some more, the car came to a stop and Asuka turned around with a grin that spoke volumes of evil. Evil she would do to them when the time was right and the moon was high.

"I told you she was a demon!" Touji cried, pointing at the grinning Asuka.

"Sub-Commander, cut the Fourth's next two checks." she ordered.

Fuyutsuki, who had this glazed over look in his eyes, nodded and replied like he had been for awhile as he stepped out of the car.

"What did you do to him?" Hikari wondered, watching the man walk to the other side of the car.

Asuka's grin widen. "Why, I took a hypnotic class in college? Who would think the Sub-commander was easy to put under."

Her door open, thanks to her new servant, and she stepped out with the pride of a queen.

"That means...." Shinji trailed off.

"Hey!" Kaworu shouted, frowning deeply. "That means we're not going to the museum."

Shinji gave Kaworu that look. Ya know, the one that clearly said: 'Hey, idiot, we've got better things to worry about and who wanted to go the museum anyways. MORON!'

"So we're really going sky diving?" Hikari asked, hoping against faith and Asuka's ability to actually control a person.

"Looks like it." Touji replied, patting her on the back.

"HEY!" Asuka screamed, pulling the door open. "Listen, you can't do anything sitting in the car so let's hop to it!" With that she turned and stomped off.

They all stayed there for one more minute.

"Might as well face death head on!" Touji exclaimed and jumped out the car.

Hikari climbed out after him. "I hope she'll let me pass this one up."

Kensuke followed her, pushing the seat forward for the others. "I told you guys we should have slain the dragon before it was too late."

Rei exited the car without a word.

"I'll protect you, Rei." Kensuke said.

Rei slowly cast her eyes on him, after holding the look for a good minute, she looked elsewhere. 'Note to self: Kill Aida.'

Shinji and Kaworu followed soon after and they all started in the directions they saw Asuka and the Sub-commander go.

***************

"Seven Kids and this guy for sky diving!" Asuka demanded.

The cashier looked up at the man and gasped. "Ah! Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki, its nice to see you." He looked back at Asuka. "And....and you must be one of the Children!"

"The Second to be exact." Asuka answered, glaring at him. "Now, let's get this show on the road."

He looked back at Fuyutsuki who had that glazed over look in his eyes still. "Is that what you want, Sir?"

"Yes, that's what he wants!" Asuka shouted. "That's what I said, isn't it?"

"But I have to have his approval!"

"ARGH! Fine! Answer him, Commander."

Fuyutsuki nodded. "Yes, that is what I want."

"Ugh...okay, well, do you guys want the training?"

"Yes!" Screamed Hikari as she entered, running to the desks. "We want to training! For God's sake, we want to training!"

Asuka and the clerk stared at her at length.

Hikari blushed and stepped back. "I'm sorry."

Getting over her shock, Asuka gave her best friend a reassuring pat on the back.

"It's okay, Hikari, I wasn't going to do the training, but if it'll make you feel better we'll do it, okay?"

Hikari nodded, looking at the ground still a little embarrassed. "Okay."

"So I take it you want the training?" the clerk asked.

"Yes, we want the training." Asuka snapped back. "What do you think we were talking about just now? The weather?"

"Okay, okay."

***********

"Okay, everyone!" announced the trainer. "I'm your trainer, Link." the blonde man said.

Hikari and Asuka started to drool. "He's so hot!"

Touji grumbled and looked at the other guys. "Oh, great we get to watch the girls drool."

"Well," Shinji started and gestured at Rei. "Ayanami's not drooling."

Touji gave Shinji that look that said. 'Yea, well Ayanami doesn't do a lot now does she, so she's not a good example.'

Shinji understood that look and shut-up. Kensuke however, didn't and decided to say:

"That's because my wife to be already knows she's got a good looking man right here."

"Kensuke," Touji started.

"Yes?"

"Shut-up."

"Don't get mad at me 'cause you're woman can't keep her eyes off of other men."

Touji blushed and looked away.

Shinji and Kaworu rolled their eyes.

"Hey, you, pay attention!" Link shouted.

After much sighing, they all gave him they're undivided attention.

"First things, first, I want you all to wear these name tags."

"We're not allowed to do that!" Asuka shouted. "Its against NERV regulations for the Children to tell they're names. Especially if the person knows who they are."

Link blinked. "Ugh...okay, then what DO I say when I want someone's attention?"

Kaworu rose his hand. "You simply call us by our designated code number."

"Oh, okay." Link replied, rather slowly. "What are those?"

Asuka sighed and pointed at Rei. "First." She pointed at herself. "Second." Next Shinji. "Third." Touji was next. "Fourth." And finally Kaworu. "Fifth."

"I'm Hikari, I'm not a NERV employee so you can call me by name."

Kensuke sighed in disappointed, then his eyes lite up. "I'm the Sixth Child!"

All eyes landed on him.

"You are not the Sixth Child, Aida." Rei informed him.

Kensuke looked at her, frowning. "Ya know, to be my girlfriend, you're not very supportive."

"I am not your 'girlfriend' as you so put it."

Kensuke huffed and looked away. "You're really into putting down a guy's hopes and dreams today aren't you?"

Rei choose not to comment on that.

Seeing that Kensuke was not about to share his name with their trainer, Shinji did.

"Yea, that's Kensuke." He informed.

"Wannabe Eva pilot." Touji added with a smirk.

"And wannabe Ayanami's boyfriend." Kaworu threw in as well, giving the same smirk.

"I hate you guys!" Kensuke yelled.

Link stared at them, then looked at Fuyutsuki who was still very much out of it and then back at them. "Right, let's get this show on the road. I gotta go find Princess Zelda. And possibly rescue her. And if that's not it, I'll probably have to save Hyrule again."

Exchanging a glance with Hikari, Asuka choose not to comment on that and followed after the slightly delusional man.

Hikari choose that moment to pray to the God which somehow always manage to put them in deep doo doo.

The guys didn't hear anything because they were too busy making fun of Kensuke.

Rei didn't care.

Fuyutsuki was too hypnotized to know what was going on. Let alone form his own coherent thought.


*********

"Okay, the first lesson in sky diving is how to put your parachute on." Link started, holding the backpack in his hand, while gesturing with the other.

"That's pretty damn easy." Asuka muttered, she slipped it on and rolled her eyes. "Next step!"

"No. We have to attach all the buckles and belts and make sure everything checks out. You wouldn't want the parachute to fall off of you in mid-air."

"Some of us wouldn't mind her parachute doing that." Touji said.

"Suzahara!" Hikari shouted, grabbing his ear.

"What!? What'd I do now!?"

Ignoring them, Link continued to show the remaining people who were paying attention how to put the parachute on properly.

*********

Many steps later...

"Okay now..."

"We're ready to go sky diving!?" Asuka asked, eagerly.

Link stared at her blankly before turning around. "Umm...no. But we are ready to play on the wind trampoline."

"Oooooooh." Came various voices.

"Aaah." came others.

"Right." Link started. "This will help you learn how to get use to the wind in your eyes and your proper position in the air."

"I just want to jump..." cried Asuka to herself.

'And I just want you to fall to your bloody death!' Three people thought.

Touji and Kensuke exchanged glances for they knew they thought the same thing.

The third person who had that thought looked on.

"Ah, okay, now who wants to go first?" Link asked. Touji's, Kensuke's, and Asuka's hands all shot to the air and they started waving them around.

"I wish we would have gone to the museum." Kaworu whispered.

Shinji looked at him. "Hey, we can go to the museum another time, this might actually prove to be fun."

Kaworu looked at Shinji with hopeful eyes. "You think?"

Shinji nodded and patted his friend on the back. "Yea, sure, who knows maybe we'll learn something valuable in the end."

"How about you?" Link yelled, pointing at Shinji.

Shinji tensed up and slowly focus his attention towards Link. "Ugh...me what?"

"Try out the wind trampoline."

Shinji looked around, all eyes, but those that were hypnotize by their charges, were on him. He grinned nervously. "Ugh..."

Link grinned in a friendly matter. "Ah, c'mon, give it a go."

"No, actually I think I'm allergic to wind." he lied.

Everyone was quiet.

"You wouldn't be able to live if you were allergic to wind." Rei stated logically. "In fact, you would have died instantly right after coming out of your mother's womb."

Shinji slowly turned his gaze towards Rei. "Ayanami?"

"Yes, Ikari?"

"Me and you are gonna have to have a rather long talk about your social skills. As well as your tact."

Rei blinked at him for a moment. "My social skills are adequate."

Touji let out a small chuckle while shaking his head. "Noooo, they're not." he said bluntly. Rei turned to him. "Your social skills, for lack of a better word, suck!

Rei stared at Touji impassively before turning around and focusing her attention on something else. 'Note to self: Kill Suzahara. Note to self: write down all my notes to myself for my brain is starting to suffer an overload from having to remember all these people.'

Hikari shuddered as she thought back to her conversation with Touji about Rei and secretly planning to kill everyone.

Link cleared his throat and he had everyone's attention once again. "Now, you, Third...or whatever number you are go on up there."

'Why me!?' Shinji cried in his mind. He slowly trudge through his friends up to where Link was standing, all the while holding his head low and thinking about the worst of the situations. 'I'm gonna fall or something and then Asuka's gonna call me an idiot and Touji and Kensuke will tease me and Hikari will try to be the supreme ruler of the universe by telling me to be more careful while at the same time scolding Touji and Ken for laughing.' He sighed. 'And just when you think it can't get weirder Commander Fuyutsuki will probably be ordered by Asuka to laugh at me and then Asuka'll have him order Ayanami to laugh at me...and...and....' Lifting his head up, Shinji briefly glance in the direction of Rei and then looked forward. 'I wonder if I could get her to laugh.'

"Yo, Third boy!" Link called, waving his hands in front of Shinji's face. He looked up to give Asuka a questioning look, before looking back at Shinji.

"HEY! STUPID!" Asuka shouted, knocking Shinji upside the head.

Shinji snapped out of his trance. "OW!" he rubbed his head and glared in Asuka's direction. "What's your problem!?"

"You are!"

"What did I do!?"

Asuka growled. "You're not paying attention."

An argument between Second and Third Children began.

An evil grin spread across one Touji Suzahara's face. He turned his attention to Kensuke, who was looking at Rei, who in turn, was giving some inanimate object more attention than she would give a person. 'Weird.' Touji thought and shook his head. 'Must get back to the plan.' His grin returned and he leaned over next to Kensuke's ear. "Say, I bet, Shin-man's thinking about doin' somethin' real passionate with Ayanami."

Kensuke gasped and then glared at Touji. After a moment he turned away while mumbling. "Touji's just lying. Ikari doesn't have a chance. Not a chance in hell..."

"Commander, tell Shinji to just get on the damn thing so we go!" Asuka ordered.

Fuyutsuki was about to fulfill her command when Shinji, in quite the bad mood, shouted.

"ALL RIGHT! All right! I'm going!" with a grunt of annoyance, Shinji pulled himself onto the Trampoline.

"All right, pal, prepare yourself." Link warned.

Still quite a little peeved, Shinji just crossed his arms over his chance and waited.

"You might want to choose another position." Link offered. "That one will do nothing for you when the wind starts up."

Shinji slowly cast his blue eyes in the direction of Link. "Look, pal, I have a multiple story high Eva that says I could give a flying hell right about now."

Asuka, still flustered from the argument as well, rolled her eyes. "Geeze, you call him a stupid-oedipus complex, clone loving, butt-licking moron and he gets a stick in his ass."

"Might I ask where you got that clone part from?" Hikari inquired.

"Ah, no where really." Asuka admitted, shrugging her shoulders. "Just a dream I had once."

Link sighed when his attempts to persuade Shinji to get into a more suitable position failed. He sighed once again when he gave he brown-haired eva pilot a disappointed look. Then, without anymore sighing, he pulled the switch and his personality did a one-eighty. Slowly an evil grin crossed his sweet, previously friendly face and loudly he started throwing out commands and insults at the boy who was now fumbling on the trampoline, trying to withstand the wind.

"All right, scream you little mother-loving whore, scream!" he shouted with a deranged look in his eyes.

Several children gulped and prayed. Asuka wasn't one of them, so they were still doomed.

**********

Kaworu remembered heaven and how sweet it was up there. He remembered that he never had to bother with such things when he was in heaven. If it was heaven he was in anyway. But he remembered just hanging out and not having a care in the world. He remembered the simple things. Kaworu was suddenly having second thoughts about sky diving.

Hikari remembered that on New Years' Eve, when she was in seventh grade, she vowed to graduate both high school and college, get married, have a good job, have exactly four kids (Two girls and two boys), and live the rest of her life in peace. She came to the conclusion that if she did this today that wasn't going to happen.

Shinji remembered that on his tenth birthday, his teacher had given him a pair of roller blades. He had remembered that he was grateful even though he just wanted a freakin' bike. He remembered that he put on those blasted in-line skates and stood up, something horrible followed. He then remembered why those skates ended up in the lake not long to after. He just only wish he could do the same thing here.

Touji remembered his little sister's fourth birthday. It was such a lovely day. They're weren't a lot of kids, but it was still a great day. His sister was happy, and smiling, and even though Touji got cake all over his pants he had a blast. He just wish that now he was having a blast. Link was starting to scare him.

Rei stared at her hand. Yes, she figured out that right about now would be a great time to see your life flash before your eyes, but at the moment she was just having a weep bit of trouble trying to get any good memories to surface. And she really really tried too. Okay so maybe she didn't. In fact, all she did was stare at the wall and think about it for a minute then decided that there really were no good memories to remember, so she started to stare at her hand. And stared. And stared some more. Finally, she blinked and thought 'I wonder if other people have hair as naturally soft as mine.' she glanced over at Touji, since he was right next to her and considered it. Finally, she decided that if she was going to die she was going to find out if her hair was the softest hair. She extended her hand.

Kensuke looked around the plane with his camera. Although Link had throughly shaken them all up with his deranged rantings about how he had witness a friend of his become a pancake because of parachute issues, he decided that now was not the time to piss on himself. Instead he decided that taping this would help him leave his mark in history as one of the greatest people around. Even if he didn't get to be an Eva pilot, he still got to hang around them and do things like this. Who else could honestly say they got to sky dive with the five Children and Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki. No one. Well Hikari could, but she didn't count as of right now. So Kensuke panned around with his camera then a thought stuck him. 'If I'm going to die, I should at least get a goodbye kiss.' his eyes wandered over to Rei Ayanami, who was looking the other direction, seemingly at Touji. 'Well, here goes nothing.'

Asuka looked around at all the other people. 'They all look scared. I wonder if anyone pissed on themselves yet? What the hell is Wondergirl getting ready to do?' she blinked and decided she did not want to know. 'This is the part where I see my greatest childhood memory or sumthin' like that.' she sighed and shook her head.

"Okay! So who's wants to be the first to DIE!?" Link screamed, still in very much 'crazy' mode.

"Ah, geeze what the hell!?" Kensuke yelled.

He had gotten everyone's attention with his outburst. Then he caught everyone by surprise when he grabbed Rei by the shoulder's, swung her around and planted a nice kiss on her lips.

Shinji and Kaworu's mouths hung open.

"I didn't think...." Shinji trailed.

"....that Aida had it in him."

"Oh my!" Hikari gasped.

"Ewe..." Asuka grimaced.

Touji said nothing. Instead he was patting his hair. 'Was Rei trying to touch my hair?' he asked himself.

Rei's eyes widen and then narrowed. 'I was this close to finding out. And Aida has enter my personal space once again. I must deal with this!'

Link, who wasn't paying them any attention barked out. "Who's goin'? C'mon, who goin'?"

"I'll go." Asuka volunteered, but before she could prepare herself to jump someone flew by and out the door with a scream.

"AHHH!"

And Kensuke went tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...

Everyone seemingly recovered from their shock.

"Did Ayanami just shove Kensuke out of the plane?" Shinji asked, staring at the blue-haired girl in disbelief.

Asuka nodded. "Yes...yes she did."

"He's showing some initiative. How about you Commander!?"

"..........."

"Well?"

Shinji looked at Asuka. "Maybe you should let the old man's dying moment be his own."

Asuka sighed. "Fine...fine." she walked over to Fuyutsuki and placed her hand in front of his eyes. "When I snap my fingers you will return to normal and remember nothing up to this point."

"One...two..."

"AHH, Touji, it's a bug!" Hikari screamed. She somehow forgot where she was and when she back up she crashed into Asuka and both girls stumbled off the plane.

"Hikari!" Asuka bellowed, as she started to descend.

"Hikari!" Touji screamed, leaning out of the plane to get a good look at her.

Rei looked to the left, then to the right. Slowly she reached up and patted Touji on the head.

Touji recoiled in shock and jumped back. "AHHH!"

He jumped back right off the plane.

Rei blinked and watched him fall. 'My hair's softer.' was her only thought.

Shinji took a deep breath. "I guess I don't have to do this then, do I?"

Kaworu shook his head and opened his mouth to reply, only to let out a yelp of surprise instead. Slowly but surely, Kaworu was being pulled towards the open door by Link, who had him by the foot.

"C'mon boy!' he gleefully shouted. "It'll be fun."

"AHH! Please no!' Kaworu cried. He started grabbing at things. Finally he found something nice and solid.

"HEY!' Shinji screamed. "You can't hold onto to me! I'm not going out there with you."

Kaworu's grip only seem to get stronger and even though he was hanging to Shinji it didn't stop Link. Instead Link clenched his teeth and pulled harder, pulling both the Third and Fifth Children towards the door now.

"Kaworu, this isn't fair, you can't take me with you!" Shinji whined.

"Then grab on to something and save us both!" Kaworu cried.

Shinji's eyes began to jolt around, looking for the one thing that would save his life and give him salvation. He passed Rei Ayanami who had managed to get out of Link's reach. She was staring at him impassively as he was pulled by.

He steeled himself and reached out to the girl. Rei in turned stared at Shinji and did not make a move to help him. He grip his feet into the metal floor to slow down the inevitable and reached out to her again. He was still out of reach, but then again if Rei was actually trying to help it would have made things easier for the young man.

Clenching his teeth and grunting he stretch as far as he arms would stretched and progress was being made. Rei still made no move to help him.

Finally in a desperate act and on pure adrenaline, Shinji manage to grab Rei's leg. Ayanami stared at his hand firmly attached to her leg. She looked at Shinji and saw a look of pure evil.

"If I'm going down I'm taking you with me!' He screamed with a demonic glee in his eyes and with that he pulled Rei off her feet and onto the floor.

Rei yelped in surprise as her feet left from under her and gasped when she slammed against the ground. Slowly her body started moving towards the door along with a maniac laughing Shinji and a crying Kaworu.

Link was hooting and hollering and cheering as he let Kaworu go, who pulled Shinji with him, who in turn had Rei firmly by the leg and took her with him.

-End Day Two-

A/N: I felt that was the great way to end it. I could have added the other stuff and the fall and how the pilots and co will actually survive the fall, but maybe I'll add it to the beginning of the next chapter.